Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life… — Alfred North Whitehead
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. — Frank Zappa
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched… — Graham Greene
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,… — Leo Tolstoy
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal
Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,… — Albert Einstein
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or… — Winston Churchill
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by… — Sam Harris
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense… — Oswald Chambers

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